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Bridge across the Río Fuerte at El Fuerte El Chepe at terminal station, 8 February 2009. The Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico (Chihuahua-Pacific Railway), also known as El Chepe from its reporting mark CHP, is a major rail line in northwest Mexico, linking the city of Chihuahua to Los Mochis and its port, Topolobampo. [3]
Creel-Sierra Tarahumara is a railway station located in Creel, Chihuahua. The station is an important point on El Chepe, because both the Chepe Express and the Chepe Regional serve the station. The station is located at 2240 meters above sea level.
Ferrocarril Desague del Valle de Mexico [20] El Oro Mining and Railway Company [21] El Paso Southern Railway (see Mexico North Western Railway) Ferrocarril Guanajuato a San Luis de la Paz y Pozos [22] Ferrocarril Hidalgo y Nordeste [23] Ferrocarril de Hornos; Ferrocarril Inter-California; Ferrocarril Interoceanico; Ferrocarril Ixtlahuaca [22]
In 1940, the federal government of Mexico acquired the rights to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, and on May 27, 1952, it took possession of the line operated by the Mexico North Western Railway. In 1955, the federal government merged the two lines to form the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico.
Mexico on Friday launched operations on a train line that crosses the country's narrowest point from the Gulf coast to the Pacific Ocean, kicking off a flagship government project as the ...
Los Mochis is the western terminus of the Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad (El Chepe), which passes through the scenic Copper Canyon. This railway was approved by President Porfirio Díaz as a trade route linking the cattle markets in Kansas City with the nearest port on the Pacific Ocean, Topolobampo.
At the beginning of his first term Díaz inherited 398 miles (640.5 km) of railroads consisting almost exclusively of the British-owned Mexican Railway. [1] By the end of his second term in 1910, Mexico boasted 15,360 miles (24,720 km) of in-service track, mostly built by American, British and French investors.
Mexico’s massive, debt-fueled passenger rail building program is not going to end with the administration of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but will instead double, he said ...